Adam Johnson hopes to have caught Roy Hodgson’s eye

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It was easy to smile at the prospect of Adam Johnson becoming part of Roy Hodgson’s plans for the World Cup. This is, after all, a winger who has not always been first choice at a club in the relegation places.

Having scored the first league hat-trick of his career, at Craven Cottage, after coming on as a substitute to torment Manchester United in the first leg of the Capital One Cup semi-final four days earlier, Johnson is surely in Hodgson’s peripheral vision at least.

“In the last few weeks and months I felt like the door was almost closed